The Queen's Birthday Honours 1960 were appointments in many of the Commonwealth realms of Queen Elizabeth II to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of those countries. They were announced in supplements to the London Gazette of 3 June 1960 for the United Kingdom,United Kingdom list: Australia,Australia list: New Zealand,New Zealand list: Ghana,Ghana list: and the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland.Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland list:
At this time honours for Australians were awarded both in the United Kingdom honours, on the advice of the premiers of Australian states, and in a separate Australia honours list.
The recipients of honours are displayed here as they were styled before their new honour, and arranged by honour, with classes (Knight, Knight Grand Cross, etc.) and then divisions (Military, Civil, etc.) as appropriate.
United Kingdom and Commonwealth
Viscount Field-Marshal Sir William Joseph Slim, , lately Governor-General of Australia.
Baron Basil Sanderson, . For services to industrial relations in the shipping industry.
Privy Councillor Cuthbert James McCall Alport, , Member of Parliament for Colchester since 1950. Assistant Postmaster-General, 1955–1957; Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Commonwealth Relations Office, 1957–1959; Minister of State, Commonwealth Relations Office, since 1959. Frederick James Erroll, , Member of Parliament for Altrincham and Sale since 1945. Parliamentary Secretary to Ministry of Supply, 1955–1956, and to Board of Trade, 1956–1958; Economic Secretary to HM Treasury, 1958–1959; Minister of State, Board of Trade, since 1959.
Baronet Major Thomas Philip Barber, . For public services in Nottinghamshire. Sir Herbert Walter Butcher, , Member of Parliament for Holland-with-Boston since 1937. A Lord Commissioner of HM Treasury and Joint Deputy Government Chief Whip, 1951–1953. Chief Whip, Liberal Unionist Parliamentary Group, 1945–1951 and since 1953. Vice-Chairman, National Liberal Organisation since 1952. For political and public services. Major Sir (Ernest) Guy Richard Lloyd, , Member of Parliament for East Renfrew, 1940–1959. For political and public services. Sir Kenneth Dugald Stewart, , Chairman, Trustee Savings Banks Associations.
Knight Bachelor Robert Stevenson Aitken, Vice-Chancellor, University of Birmingham. Reginald Pridham Baulkwill, , Public Trustee. John Maxwell Bemrose. For political and public services in the East Midlands. Frank Bower, , President, Association of British Chambers of Commerce. Walter Eric Chiesman, , Medical Adviser, HM Treasury. Alderman Harold Clowes, , Lord Mayor of Stoke-on-Trent. George Beresford Craddock, , Member of Parliament for the Spelthorne Division since 1950. For political and public services. John Goronwy Edwards, Director, Institute of Historical Research and Professor of History, University of London. Colonel William Heneage Wynne Finch, , lately HM Lieutenant of the County of Caernarvon. Percy Llewellyn Hunting, Chairman, Hunting Group of Companies. Richard Hugh Jessel, lately Deputy Chairman, Export Credits Advisory Council. Edgar Mayne Keatinge, , Member of Parliament for Bury St. Edmunds, 1944–1945. For political and public services in Suffolk and Wessex. Malcolm McLeod McCulloch, , lately Chief Constable, City Police, Glasgow. William Hunter McFadzean, President, Federation of British Industries. Commander John Francis Whitaker Maitland, , Royal Navy (Retd), Member of Parliament for the Horncastle Division since 1945. For political and public services. Thomas Neame, , Horticulturist. For services to fruit growing. John Samuel Richardson, , Physician, St Thomas' Hospital. Benjamin William Rycroft, , Consulting Ophthalmic Surgeon. Samuel Isidore Salmon. For political and public services in London. Basil Ferdinand Jamieson Schonland, , Director, Research Group, United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority. Andrew Smith, Alderman, , Chairman, Lancashire County Council. Basil Urwin Spence, , President, Royal Institute of British Architects. Gordon Brims Black McIvor Sutherland, Director, National Physical Laboratory. Henry Gerard Thornton, Foreign Secretary, The Royal Society. Edward George Tucker, Controller of Death Duties, Board of Inland Revenue. William Holmes Lister Urton, , General Director of the Conservative and Unionist Central Office since 1957. For political services. Wilfred Douglas Vernon, Chairman, Spillers, Ltd. Frederick John West, . For political services in Middlesex and Essex.
State of Victoria The Honourable Arthur Dean, Judge of the Supreme Court of the State of Victoria.
State of Queensland James Arthur Holt, Co-ordinator General of Public Works, State of Queensland.
State of South Australia Ferdinand Caire Drew, , Under Treasurer, State of South Australia.
State of Western Australia Lawrence Percival Gadsdon, President of the Local Government Association, State of Western Australia.
Commonwealth Relations Brigadier Matthew Henry Cox, , Indian Army (retired), formerly Additional Director-General of Ordnance Factories in India; for services in connection with development projects in India. Thomas Vaisey Scrivenor, , Deputy High Commissioner for Basutoland, the Bechuanaland Protectorate and Swaziland.
Overseas Territories Chau Sik-nin, . For public services in Hong Kong. Marie Charles Emmanuel Clement Nageon De Lestang, Chief Justice of the High Court of Lagos and the Southern Cameroons. Hallam Grey Massiah, . For public services in Barbados. Odumegwu Ojukwu, . For public services in the Eastern Region, Nigeria. Olagbegi II, The Olowo of Owo. For public services in the Western Region, Nigeria. Alfred Baillie Rennie, Federal Justice, The West Indies. Arthur Trenham Weatherhead, , Deputy Governor, Northern Region, Nigeria. Ralph Windham, formerly Justice of Appeal, Eastern African Court of Appeal, now Chief Justice, Tanganyika.
Order of the Bath
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (GCB) Military Division Admiral Sir Caspar John, .
Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) Military Division Vice-Admiral Wilfrid John Wentworth Woods, . Lieutenant-General Ian Hurry Riches, . Lieutenant-General Sir James Newton Rodney Moore, , (32071), late Foot Guards.
Civil Division Frank Chalton Francis, , Director and Principal Librarian, British Museum. Alfred John Sims, , Director-General, Ships, Admiralty.
Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) Military Division Royal Navy Rear-Admiral The Right Honourable David Charles, Earl Cairns. Rear-Admiral Edmund Neville Vincent Currey, . Rear-Admiral John Grant, . Rear-Admiral John Graham Hamilton, . Rear-Admiral Edmund Thomas Larken, . Major-General Reginald Carteret de Mussenden Leathes, . Rear-Admiral Michael Le Fanu, . Rear-Admiral Ernest Mill, . Surgeon Vice-Admiral William Robert Silvester Panckridge, . Surgeon Rear-Admiral Dermot Francis Walsh, .
Army Major-General Gilbert Thomas Lancelot Archer, , (39082), late Royal Army Medical Corps. Major-General Eric Stuart Cole, , (33651), late Royal Corps of Signals. Major-General John French (41109), late Royal Armoured Corps. Major-General Frederick Clarence Campbell Graham, , (41133), late Infantry Colonel, The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (Princess Louise's). Major-General William Dillon Hughes, , (40252), late Royal Army Medical Corps. Major-General Basil Douglas Jones, , (28281), Royal Army Ordnance Corps (now R.A.R.O.). Major-General Henry Maughan Liardet, , (31303), late Royal Armoured Corps. Major-General Denis Grattan Moore (41234), late Infantry. Major-General Richard Henry Littleton Wheeler, , (34344), late Royal Regiment of Artillery.
Royal Air Force Air Vice-Marshal Colin Scragg, . Acting Air Vice-Marshal Ronald Arthur Ramsay Rae, . Air Commodore Ord Denny Allerton, . Air Commodore Herbert Waldemar Mermagen, . Air Commodore John Nicholas Haworth Whitworth, . Acting Air Commodore James Anthony Leathart, . Group Captain Deryck Cameron Stapleton, .
Civil Division Frederick Arthur Bishop, , Deputy Secretary of the Cabinet. John Stirling Brunton, HM Senior Chief Inspector of Schools, Scottish Education Department. Percy John Curtis, , Secretary, Exchequer and Audit Department. Owen Francis, Under-Secretary, Ministry of Power. Frank Hollins, Under-Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. Morris Mackintosh Ord Johnstone, Under-Secretary, Office of the Registrar of Restrictive Trading Agreements. Frederick Measham Lea, , Director, Building Research Station, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research. James Stuart McPetrie, Director-General of Electronics Research and Development, Ministry of Aviation. William Nicholson McWilliam, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Labour and National Insurance, Northern Ireland. Thomas George Talbot, , Counsel to the Chairman of Committees, House of Lords. John Martindale Wilson, Under-Secretary, Ministry of Defence. George Kennedy Young, , Under-Secretary, Foreign Office.
Order of Saint Michael and Saint George
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George (GCMG) Sir Kenneth Roberts-Wray, , Legal Adviser, Commonwealth Relations Office and Colonial Office.
Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG) Horace Algernon Fraser Rumbold, , Deputy Under-Secretary of State, Commonwealth Relations Office. Arthur Wendell Snelling, , High Commissioner for the United Kingdom in Ghana. Alexander Montgomery Wilson Rae, , Medical Adviser to the Secretary of State for the Colonies. Michael Justin Creswell, , Her Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary in Belgrade. Samuel, Viscount Hood, , Minister, Her Majesty's Embassy, Washington. Roderick Wallis Parkes, , lately Her Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary in Saigon.
Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) Harold Bailey, United Kingdom Senior Trade Commissioner, India. Ronald Stuart Symons, , Assistant Secretary, HM Treasury. Brigadier Croxton Sillery Vale, , Regional Director (at Arras, France), Northern Region, Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Arthur Franklyn Williams, Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Power. Kenneth Johnstone Binns, Under Treasurer of the State of Tasmania. Robert Peter Fawcus, , Resident Commissioner, Bechuanaland Protectorate. Richard Henry Francis, General Secretary, Dairymen's Organisation, State of Queensland. Norman Frederick Mitchell, a Judge of the County Court, State of Victoria; President, Royal Agricultural Society of Victoria. Harold Goodhew Turner, formerly Principal Establishment Officer, Federation of Malaya, now Secretary to the Federal Treasury. Michael David Irving Gass, Chief Secretary, Western Pacific High Commission. Iain Gilbert Gunn, Resident, Sokoto Province, Northern Region, Nigeria. John Leslie Von der Heyde, , Chairman, Public Service Commission, Tanganyika. Lieutenant-Colonel The Honourable Henry Anthony Camillo Howard, Administrator, St. Kitts-Nevis-Anguilla. Richard Edmonds Luyt, , Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Education, Labour and Lands, Kenya. Alastair James McIntosh, , Resident Adviser and British Agent, Eastern Aden Protectorate. Dermod Art Felly Murphy, , Commissioner for Special Duties, Western Region, Nigeria. John Horace Parry, , Principal of University College, Ibadan, Western Region, Nigeria. Henry Ellis Isidore Phillips, , Financial Secretary, Nyasaland. William Wenban-Smith, , Minister for Education and Labour, Tanganyika. Peter Hyla Gawne Stallard, , Secretary to the Prime Minister, Federation of Nigeria. Jeromi Oputa Udoji, Chief Secretary to the Premier, Eastern Region, Nigeria. Leonard George Coke Wallis, , Chairman, Public Service Commission, Western Region, Nigeria. John Vernon Wild, , Administrative Secretary, Uganda. Guy Trayton Barton, , Chief Secretary, Barbados. Ellis Emmanuel Innocent Clarke, Attorney-General, Trinidad.